Alcan Aluminum Recycles 22 Billion UBCs in ‘01

Alcan Aluminum Corp. recycled more than 22 billion aluminum used beverage cans last year, representing 40 percent of the cans that are recycled in the United States. Alcan

Alcan operates three UBC recycling facilities in the United States. They are located in Berea, KY, Oswego, NY, and Greensboro, GA.

The Berea facility, the largest UBC recycling facility in the world, recycled more than 11 billion cans, the Greensboro facility recycled more than 6 billion cans, and more than 5 billion cans were recycled at Alcan’s Oswego plant.

In total, the recycling of UBCs declined last year. According to the Aluminum Association, about 55.6 million UBCs were recycled in the United States last year, a decline is slightly more than 11 percent from the recycling level in 2000. Last year’s total recycling figure is the first time in a decade that the rate has dipped below 60 percent, according to published reports.

Alcan Aluminum Corp., based in Cleveland, is the U.S. subsidiary of Alcan, Inc., a multinational leader in aluminum and specialty packaging headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.

In the United States, Alcan Aluminum employs over 4,500 people at 13 facilities.